CHAPTER 1 PROBLEMS 1. Q: What is the role of middleware in a distributed system? A: To enhance the distribution transparency that is missing in network operating systems. In other words, middleware aims at improving the single-system view that a distributed system should have. 2. Q: Explain what is meant by (distribution) transparency, and give examples of different types of transparency. A: Distribution transparency is the phenomenon by which distribution aspects in a system are hidden from users
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OBJECTIVES | | | | | | |Review Checkpoints |Exercises Problems |Cases | | | | | | |1. Define and explain the differences
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potential. Next to the country’s hydro resources, biomass accounts for a sizable share of Bulgaria’s final energy consumption, approximately 3.7 percent or 409,000 toe of the calculated 10,918,000 toe total consumption (Sofia Energy Center data report). Due to the lack of reliable nationwide assessments and data, it is estimated that in practice this number is much larger. The majority of the biomass energy consumption exists mainly in the rural areas, where fuelwood, followed by the residential consumption
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